The Off Topic Topic

[Josquius]

God I just had a flashback to the absolute contempt I felt for Meccano when I got a set. I also think it was far too complicated and engineeringy for me

Edit : I really hated that Meccano set. Could not work out what was meant to be enjoyable about using a spanner.

I was similar when I inherited one at about 5.
But then at 11 or so (these ages may be totally wrong) felt it was awesome and was sad I had so little.
If only I'd had all the fancy bits.....

[mongers]

How did people get so self-absorbed?

article here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-50743523

[Eddie Teach]

Are your religious sensibilities offended?

[Iormlund]

Could not work out what was meant to be enjoyable about using a spanner.

Most capable engineers I've met during my career started tinkering when they were kids.
I was never a spanner kind of guy (though now I carry 3 in my pocket every workday). But I started programming when I was 12, soon after my father bought our first computer. Others I know played with electronic components or their parents' tools or cars.

[Grey Fox]

My mom would glue together my lego sets. It didn't really stop me from taking them apart.

[jimmy olsen]

 

[celedhring]

I loved Meccano sets myself. I only had a couple because they were really expensive, so ultimately my parents went Lego which was way cheaper (at the time). Also TENTE, which was a Spanish knockoff.

[Josquius]

My mom would glue together my lego sets. It didn't really stop me from taking them apart.

.... Why?
Seems to defeat the point

[Grey Fox]

My mom would glue together my lego sets. It didn't really stop me from taking them apart.

.... Why?
Seems to defeat the point

So she wouldn't have to help rebuild them again? I never asked.

[Syt]

[Valmy]

Very clever Christmas camo

[crazy canuck]

Yeah, look at that guy not staring at a device!

[Eddie Teach]

Might have it hooked up to his retinas.

[mongers]

Interested in seeing the simulated effects of different nuclear weapons on any place on the globe?

https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/


This one is somewhat worrying, a nuclear attack on the La Hague nuclear storage facility across the channel from here:

https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?&kt=50000&lat=49.68278&lng=-1.90389&airburst=0&hob_ft=0&casualties=1&fallout=1&ff=3&psi=20,5,1&zm=7

Since the model can't include the radioactive fallout from the hundreds of tonnes of nuclear fuel waste stored there, I choose the tzar bomb setting as a rough approximation. 

[Saladin]

Hello,

What's up?